Anti-Racist Scholarship: An Advocacy

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Thanks to Patti Spencer for her unwavering love and support. Thanks to Corinna and Jasper for teaching me to love more deeply and completely. Thanks to Roo and Sid, just for being such a central part of what life is for me. Thanks to Peter Wheat who as a staff member in my department did an extraordinary amount of work helping me assemble this book. Thanks to Christine Sleeter, who has always been a good friend, a source of warm support sinceI ¤rstbecame a professor,and a sister in the struggle againstwhite racism. Thanks to Michelle D. Young, Cynthia Tyson, Christine Sleeter, Jay Scribner , Patricia Sánchez, Kanya Mahitivanichcha, Gerardo Lopéz, Julie Laible, Jim Koschoreck, Miguel Guajardo, Carl Glickman, and Elissa Fineman, each of whom has work that is included here to help white scholars become anti-racist scholars. Thanks to my colleagues, Henry Trueba, Lonnie Wagstaff, Pedro Reyes, Jay Scribner, Linda Skrla, and Joe Johnson, each of whom has been a source of continuing support for my work and me. Thanks to all of my students, those who have become professors, those who have become educational leaders, and those who have gone to other areas of work and life. The interactions with all of you have contributed signi¤cantly to my own understanding and thus to the work that is presented here. Thanks to the American Educational Research Association for allowing me to reprint several articles from Educational Researcher (ER). All four pieces in Chapter 1 were in vol. 22:8, 1993. Also, all four pieces in Chapter 2 were in ER. “Coloring epistemology” was in vol. 26:4, 1997, while the other three pieces in Chapter 2 were in vol. 27:9, 1997. Thanks to Taylor and Francis Ltd, PO Box 25, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 3UE,UK, for allowing me to reprint three articles of the International Journal of Leadership in Education. The ¤rst two pieces in Chapter three are from vol. 1:1, and the third is from vol. 2:1. Thanks to Sage and Sage/Corwin for Chapters 3, 5, 7, and 8. Chapters 3, 5, and 8 appeared in the Educational Administration Quarterly, respectively, vol. 31:2, vol. 35:4, and vol. 34:3. Chapter 7 appeared in Urban Education, vol. 33:4. ...